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Timothy Driscoll commented on HIVE-8954: ---------------------------------------- We've run into the same issue as well. Stack trace (below) is against the Hive 1.0.0 release. Looks like it was introduced here: https://github.com/apache/hive/commit/d466a4a266cad48a875cb78fc706c03878bfbfa3#diff-96eaae2c03bb93befeba9bf598597704L181 Apparently the assumption of when partitions may be null was incorrect. From the stack trace, the Driver is explicitly passing in null on this SELECT query: https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/release-1.0.0/ql/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/ql/Driver.java#L638 I don't know the ramifications, but I just reverted the diff to perform the original check on the table and fixes this particular issue at least. {code} hive> select * from hive_table limit 5; FAILED: HiveException java.security.AccessControlException: action WRITE not permitted on path hdfs://cluster/hive_table for user <user> 15/02/16 09:37:06 ERROR ql.Driver: FAILED: HiveException java.security.AccessControlException: action WRITE not permitted on path hdfs://cluster/hive_table for user <user> org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: java.security.AccessControlException: action WRITE not permitted on path hdfs://cluster/hive_table for user <user> at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security.authorization.StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider.checkPermissions(StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider.java:393) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security.authorization.StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider.checkPermissions(StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider.java:357) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security.authorization.StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider.authorize(StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider.java:331) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security.authorization.StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider.authorize(StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider.java:180) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security.authorization.StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider.authorize(StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider.java:231) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security.authorization.StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider.authorize(StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider.java:253) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.doAuthorization(Driver.java:638) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:455) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compile(Driver.java:303) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.compileInternal(Driver.java:1067) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.runInternal(Driver.java:1129) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:1004) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.Driver.run(Driver.java:994) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLocalCmd(CliDriver.java:201) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processCmd(CliDriver.java:153) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.processLine(CliDriver.java:364) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.executeDriver(CliDriver.java:712) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.run(CliDriver.java:631) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.cli.CliDriver.main(CliDriver.java:570) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:212) Caused by: java.security.AccessControlException: action WRITE not permitted on path hdfs://cluster/hive_table for user <user> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.DefaultFileAccess.checkFileAccess(DefaultFileAccess.java:88) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.DefaultFileAccess.checkFileAccess(DefaultFileAccess.java:55) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.shims.Hadoop23Shims.checkFileAccess(Hadoop23Shims.java:790) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.common.FileUtils.checkFileAccessWithImpersonation(FileUtils.java:381) at org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security.authorization.StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider.checkPermissions(StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider.java:384) ... 23 more {code} > StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider Check write permission on HDFS on SELECT > SQL request > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-8954 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-8954 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Authorization > Affects Versions: 0.14.0 > Environment: centos 6.5 > Reporter: LINTE > > With hive.security.metastore.authorization.manager set to > org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.security.authorization.StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider. > It seem that on a read request, write permissions are check on the HDFS by > the metastore. > sample : > bash# hive > hive (default)> use database; > OK > Time taken: 0.747 seconds > hive (database)> SELECT * FROM table LIMIT 10; > FAILED: HiveException java.security.AccessControlException: action WRITE not > permitted on path hdfs://cluster/hive_warehouse/database.db/table for user > myuser -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)